Well, eventually...when Phalcon support for PHP 7 lands, can we also expect performance improvements? I would expect some benefit for the PHP portion of our apps right?

Yea thats right, mostly php portion of our apps. I guess only for framework there will be almost oa difference, like in some simple Hello World benchmarks there will be no diffrence. But in somoe more complex maybe more. But im not sure. I guess you can rewrite your php application to zephir application and it will be almost like your php application with phalcon supporting php7.